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五拜禮號三十二月四英港香 FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1926. 日二十月三

WEST RIVER BANDIT

EVIL...

CANTON CHANGES CANTON'S UNSETTLED

WING ON CASE,

STRIKES

ASSISTANT CASHIER'S

SEVEN HUNDRED HOUSES

BURNT.

GOVERNMENT LEADER SEEKS LEAVE.

AN ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION.

ADMISSION.

COURT SENSATION.

The case in which Au Kim-lui i

·LATEST MOVES.

PUBLIC ANXIETY.

Continued trouble because of the

employees in the piece goods, s@W«

YPRES PARADE.

SMART TURN-OUT BY SURREYS.

SILVER DRUM GIFT.

SINGLE: GORE IL CENTE

EM FER ANNUM

SERIOUS SHOOTING

ONE KILLED AND THREE INJURED.

STRAITS FACTION FIGHT.

THE DRAGON KOTOR

··CAR CO, ETEL DWENENII CHÚNĖJE PRIE. KAFFYİ YALLEY

COAL CRISIS.

VITAL DIFFERENCES DISCLOSED.

EXTENSIVE RAIDS.

PREMIER'S ACTION.

Reponts to hand from Canton

A report has been circulating in failure to settle a number of On the occasion of the anniver- | and Lara Fook-yu are charged with inoleate that the next big band of Canton to the effect that Mr. Chan strikes fa causing considerable psary of the Second Battle of Ypres, A wild" exchange of shots dur-

London, April 22: Mr. Lee, Secretary of the Min- conspiracy to defraud the Wing Onbrigande singled out for attack by Kung-pok, one of the most active prehension in Canton at present. during which the 1st Batt. Eating a faction fight between rival) Company of a sum of $50,000, and the authorities is that which has members of the left section of the Disputes between employers and

Surreys Regiment were entrusted angs of Cantonese at the junc-ing Association, in a statement an in which the first defendant was is stronghold in what is known as Kuomintang, has sont in his aping machine, tinkers, Chinese and with the defence of Hill 60, an

tion of Albert Street and Selogie regards the break up of the con also charged with prejury in con-The Cave of Seven Stars," which plication for two weeks' love of foreign shoemakers, and other lines engagement which forms one of the Road, Singapore, Inst week, result ferance between the owners and the miners, says the miners made absence, and that he has not been of business are still unsettled. most brilliant episodes in the hised in the killing of an innocent

it clear that they were not pre- bystander and the wounding of have been able to make are only tory of the Regiment, and a day three others, including a little pared to negotiate except on the at his office since.

rendered more appropriate since At the present juncture, when palliative in character and a re-

It is St. George's Day, a special Chinese girl. The scene of the basis of a uniform national par the two sections of the Kuomin-crudecence of the trouble crops up ceremonial parade of the battalion affray was only a few hundred centogo.

on the least pretext. This state

The owners said they of affairs has existed, since the was held on the Murray Barracks yards from the Kandang Kerbau did not want to reduce wages formation of the Strike Union. ground this morning, when an in-Police Station, but in the confusion

arrests were but some districts, especially the The Government at Canton is spection was made by Major Gen, that followed no

effected. The Detective Branch, exporting ones, were in desperate based on party rule, and therefore C. C. Luard, C.B., C.M.G., and silver

into the affair and the same night tallon by Mrs. Lüard.

mection with a civil action which) he previously instituted to obtain this

sam from the Company, was resumed before the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) at the Criminal Bessions this morning.

Something of a sensation aceur-

is situated on the boundary of the three districts of Fung Chuen, Hoi Kin and Wai Chup, in the upper ronches of the West River.

This band has long been source of terror to the Inhabitants,

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tang are busy in connection with the coming contest to be held on 15th May, for the election of, the

Such settlements as the authorities

red towards the end of the morn-and the latest report of its actExecutive Committee of the Gov- the Kuomintang 8 really the drums were presented to the bat-however, are making enquiries straits owing to competitive con-

Ing's hearing when Mr. Elsley vities states that for five consecn-

Zeitlyn was eross-examining the assistant cashier.

Mr. Zeitlyn asked witness if he bad ever handed out large sums of money on forged documents prior to the present case.

In reply, witness admitted that It was so, and said that he would put the sams at between: $20,000 and $30,000 in all

FALSE STATEMENT.

ernment, the news of Mr. Chan tive nights it carried out raids in

Kung-pok's application for leave villages of the Fung Chuen dia- of absence, has given rise to con- fricts, with the result that some siderable speculation in political. 700 houses were burned down, 169 circles in Canton. It is a well- people killed, 48 women and girls kidnapped, over 200 buffaloes taken away and more than a lakh's worth of jewellery and clothing stolen.

known fact that he and Mr. Kum Nal-kwong are the mainstays of the left wing of the Kuomintang, and are close supporters of Mr. Wang

The bandits have also carried Ching-wai. It is no secret that out an attack at Lao Yuen, which these two have been directing the place, however, is quite strongis movements for the election cam- Mr. Zeitlyn:Why did you deny this very same question when it defended. However, the brigandsprign, In accordance with Mr. was put to you at the Magistracy? kidnapped over 70 people and took Wang Ching-wai's instructions. Witness: made the false atateaway some 150 buffaloes. The re- As a counter-move against General ment because I had been told by sistance put up by the inhabitants, Char Kai-shek's successful appen! the Chiapany to keep the matter however, enabled them to preserve Mr. Zeitlyn reminded witness their homes intact, although fears that he was on oath at the Magie-re expressed that the bandits may tray, and witness, said that as he

again visit the place. was an employee of the Company, he was obliged to fallow instruc- tona.

Mr. Zeltlyn pressed witness for the name of the men who

BRITAIN AND CHINA.

No Arrangement With Either Party: London, April 22.

In the House of Commons, Mr. R. O. Wallhead (Labour) asked if tho Government had approached or ontored into un agreement with either of the parties engaged in civil war in China in the event of either of them occupying Peking, as to the future Government of China or its future foreign policy

Mr. Locker Lampson re plied in the negative, cleunt.

Seldom har Hongkong had an op-Inspector King effected the arrest ditions obtaining abroad. This portunity of witnessing a more im- of a Chinese in a chandu shop in was really the crux of the whole pressive spectacle. The men were Middle Road with a pistol and am-position. The miners were quite formed into three sides of a square munition in his possession, but adamant on the question of no with the regimental colours occupy. whether or not this was in connec ing the centre position, and the tion with the same affair, is not extention of hours. turn-out was exceedingly smart.

definitely known.

His Excellancy. the Governor (Sir. Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) arrived shortly after 10.30 and was accorded the Royal Salute.

It is authoritatively learnt that According to eye-witnesses of the Prime Minister has re-em-. the incident, more than a dozen shots were fired, and in all, about phasised to the owners, that the twenty men took part. It is a subsidy will terminate on May lat... curious fact, and one which seems To what extent there will be tem="" old drums baving been completed, to indicate that the shooting must

The ceremony of trooping the

the silver drums were consacrated have been very wild and that the porary assistance" will entirely by the Chaplain to the Forees, whole thing probably lasted only depend on the situation arising Lieut. Col. F. Montague Bates, a few minutes, that none of the from the present negotiations. It C.M.G., D.S.O., addressing the assailants appear to have been hit,

„CONFLICTING VIEWPOINTS.

Rugby April 22,

battalion said that the drums had but four bystanders were injured is anticipated that the Government keen purchased by the officers of by the bullets, one of them, an will now intervene and, summon to the Young, Soldiers' Union to dominant element. The stan officer in the Regiment in 1894 a Chinese girl, eleven years of

the battalion from a bequest of the Indian, being killed on the spot. the two parties together as last late Mrs. Walker, whose son was The others were two Indians and July-Router. close the Union voluntarily, these functionary body or organisation is, and who died at Agra in that year age. They are in hospital, suffer- two leaders formed another union the Central Party Committee as the result of an epidemie which Ing from bullet wounde called the New Students' Society. whose members are elected from carried off 5 officers and 86 men. the delegates sent to sit at the However, the Society of Sun Yat- sessions of the General Meeting of the officers and would be kept at The drums were the property of CHINESE DROWNED. senism, in view of Messrs. Chan the Kuomintang, which, according the officers' quarters and would be to its constitution, is held every used by the battalion on cere and Kum's partiality to the new two years. From this Central montal occasions. Students' Society, in allowing them Party Committee, whose member- Speaking of the Second Battle to hold a mass meeting of students ship is from twenty-five to thirty of Ypres, in the course of which in number, there are formed the the battalion lost fifteen officers

gave him the Instruction, and FATAL FALL FROM LIGHTER after some hesitation, he said

MOTOR MISHAPS,

A KOWLOON INCIDENT.

"The coal owners – end. Miners” Executive met to day roup the cOIL, ference ended a 6 deadlock

that he was told to say nothing A mishap alongside the Taikoo at the Canton University, and pro Central Executive Committee, the (including the Commanding Officez, Buildings, Kowloou, was driving while they were prepared to dis

by Mr. Gock Gon-fun.

He told Mr. Zeitlyn, in answer Sugar Refinery's wharf resulted in bibiting the former Society to do to further questions, that he and the death of a Chinese by drown the same, hus demanded from the cashier were held responsible ing." for the first losses, but they were The coxswain of lighter No. 7, not personally responsible for the owned by the Company, has re-

the

Government the impeachment of these two leaders. It is reported

Bubaequently, statements Were issued by both aides. Mr. Cook, Secretary of the Miners' Federa tion, said the "coal owners reiter- As Mrs. Geldart, of 4, Torrented clearly and definitely that Central, Censorate Committee and Major R. W. Paterson) and 264 motor car No. 2017 in Coronation agreements, wages must be based the Central Secretariat Committee. other ranks,

suas certain principles to govern Col. Montague- These three committees are the Bates said the battalion worthily Road, a Chinese girl, aged about upon the economic capacity of the of the Kuomintang. As to the the principal functionary organisations upheld all the traditions of thirteen, ran out from behind a districts to pay. They definite-

regiment. They behaved $50,000 concerned in the present ported that as the lighter was that hundreds of members of the Government, it takes its origin and with conspicuous gallantry and bus and was struck by the can declared that they would not discuss with our National Execu afterwards were awarded three Mrs. Geldart removed her to the tive any minimum percentages to V.Ca and many other decorations. Kowloon Hospital, where it was be applied nationally and, as this

The drums were then presented found that she was suffering from is the principle, which our Dele by Mrs. Leard and a drum salute facial injuries. She was later taken gate Conference imposed upon us, given.

to the Kwong Wan Hospital. On we could not consider their draft making enquiries, the police found agreement." Major Gen. Luard, addressing that the girl had left the the battalion, congratulated them after receiving treatment. en splendid turn-out. It was,

case. He had been reprimanded moored alongside the wharf, he Society of Sun Yat-senism visited

and told to be more careful.

ly certain?--Yes.

heard someone shout out "man Government House to make this

Mr. Zeitlyn: Are you absolute- overboard." He stepped on deck, demand, and that it was only

and saw one of the fokls struggl ing in the water. A rope was through the offices of Madame Liu

Have you always been?—Yes.

Then how to do account for the thrown to him, but he failed to Chung-hoi that they consented to fact that at the Magistratey you get hold of it and sank, were not sure as to what transpir-enquiries it appeared that the man

From withdraw. ed between you and the managers was sitting in the stern

It is surmised that the applica- Witness:--I know now, -

of the lighter when he overbalanced and tion for leave of absence by Mr. fell into the water, being quickly Chan Kung-pok is due to the action; carried away by the strong cur-

of the Society of Sun Yat-senism.

From another' quarter it ís stated that the consensus of opinion is that the andden leave of Mr. Chan Kung-pok presages new developments in the political altuation in Canton.

DEPOSIT BOOKS. Questions relative to the proce dure involved in the opening of a depositor's account in the banking department were put by Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn in his cross-examination; of the asalstant cashier, Kwok, and counsel sought to learn from

rent.

LOCAL FIRE.

witness the whereabouts of one or PART OF BUILDING GUTTED.

more deposit books of which the label did not show the name of the

"The third floor at 162, Welling-

depositor. It was suggested that ton Street, was completely gutted these untitled books, as showing a

departure from a regular practice, by fire early this morning. Lucki- were included in bundles of speci-ly the occupants, who were Chi-

casualties,

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men deposit booka produced by nese, escaped, and there were no witness in Investigations by the solicitors and counsel In the case, on the 29th March, and Mr. Zeit- lyn now called upon witness to pro- duce these untitled books.

a

The second floor, which is used Chinese restaurant, was damaged by fre, and the ground Mr. Jonkin interposed with the and first floors by water. statement that specimen cancelled

It is understood that the build-

deposit books were produced injing was insured for $4,000. bundles, in serial numbers on that occasion 'and he handed these over

to Mr. Zeitlyn.

Mr. Zeitlyn:-1 want those de- posit books without the names of the depositors on the labels. It is not satisfactory for my friend to say "Thore you are, Mr..Zaitlyn.” NO. UNTITLED BOOKS.

PACIFYING SYRIA.

BRITISH AND FRENCH COLLABORATION,

PRISONER'S SMOKE.

FINE FOR PROVIDING MATCHES.

During the hearing, at the Kow. loon Magistracy yesterday, of the usual weekly summonses for obstruction, an Indian constable on duty in the cells below the court, laid a complaint Before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill to the effect that a friend of one of the prisoners attempted to throw a box of matches to the latter.

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PEKING OUTLOOK.

Three Generali Arrive.

Peking, April 22: Generals Chang Heuoh liang, Chang Tsung-chang and Li Ching-lin entered Peking this morning.

Marshal Wu Pei-fu's repre sentatives

are expected. shortly, after which a con- forance will be held for the purpose of discussing out- standing questions Router.

Marshal Wu Pei-fu tele-. graphed to the Committee of Safety again to-day insisting on the appointment of Wang Huai-chengas › Garrison Commandant, which post Chang Tsung-chang, as tho nominee of Wang Han-ming, has taken over. Wang Huai- chong is still in Paking."--·*

At a meeting to-day, Wang Shih-chon's Committee of Safety resolved to carry on indefinitely.

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Marshal Chang Tso-lin has offered to supply large quantities of grain to Peking, where the shortage is cansing anxiety. It is re- ported that Marshal Chang will shortly visit Poking, Reuter.

Hospital Mr.

Mr. Lee, Secretary of the Coal-

Two ricksha drivers have been owners' Executive, stated that the he said, one of the best he had had sent to the Kwong Wah Hospital Meeting between the owners and the pleasure of seeing."

with injuries recolved when motor miners was called in order to dia- His Excellency then referred to bus 1190 ran Into them af cues terms of a national agree

a pleasant duty which he was to Gascoigne Road. The driver of the ment and provisionally determifa- perform that of decorating Sergt. bus has been detained.

Drummer French,

ECONOMY BILL.

PASSES THIRD READING.

ing the general principles for the regulation of wages, but we were not able to get down to a diacus- elon of the agreement because the miners' representatives made it quite clear that they were not prepared to negotiate for these terms except on the basis

uniform national per

&

Drummer French with the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. To gain that medal a iman must have at least oighteen years' ser- vice with the colours, and his conduct during that tini, must be irreproachable. There were pre- sont many young soldiers who

London, April 22. of The House of Commons by 328. could and should endeavour to votes to 133 has agreed to the third centage and that, too, in spite of emulate the example of Sergt. reading of the Economy Bill, after the recommendations of the Royal Gen. Luard having decorated Donald and Mr. Lloyd George con- they could not possibly agree to speeches by Mr. Ramsay Commission. The owners sald Sergt. French, the battalion march demning the proposals of the Bill that. On the other hand, the ed past in column of route.

to take £4,700,000 from the National miners further made it clear that Insurance Fund and to economise they stood on the ground of no on education.

reduction in wages of any kind, Mr. Winston Churchill, in reply, The owners mentioned the ques declared that the Government's tion of hours and pointed out that proposals were jusbled. He point they could much more favourably ed out that this year's estimates discuss terms that would give the provided for £2,000,000 more for men a chance of earning decent education than did the Labour wages if the miners consented to Government in 1924-Reutor. an extension of working hours, We told the miners' representa- tives that it was not because the owners wanted to reduce wages | that they were anxious to s20 an extension of working hours, but wo

HOME AGRICULTURE.

REPRESENTED ON IMPERIAL COMMITTEE.

Rugby, April 22.

It is announced that His

SUSPENSION ENDS.

The prisoner concerned had been receives its power from the Central Majesty's Government have pro- previously convicted on a charge of Party Committee, from whose posed and the other Governments members are chosen three similar concerned have agreed, that an gambling and had in his possession Committees but with the words additional member shall be ap- LABOUR MEMBERS RESUME emphasised the fact that some a packet of cigarettes. Not having Nationalist Government" added pointed by His Majesty's Govern- any matches, the prisoner, on see

SEATS.

London, April 22.

districts, particularly the export- Paris, April. 22. Mr. Jonkin said that there were According to the Petit Journal, cells, requested the latter to oblige A new situation was created by Home agricultural interests.

ing a friend pass the door of the to the titlement to the Imperial Economie Committee, as a representative of

ing districts, are really in des ho untitled deposit books, and he M. Briand, in addressing the him with a match.

perate struíta in competition with the formation of the Strike "Com- could not produce them.

Senate Foreign Affairs Committee,

The thirteen Labour Members being worked and where the men countries, where longer hours are Mr. Zeitlyn put it to witness explained that there was complete was an entirely innocent one, he extreme elements, was made into ment the Prime Minister has ap- who were suspended last week have are accepting lower wages, and

Though the coolie's intention mittee, which, by the efforts of the In accordance with this arrange-an yesterday upon explicit Instrue- understanding and collaboration was arrested and brought before the an extra functionary hody, being pointed Mr. F. N. Blundell, M. P. resumed their seats in the House that it is that element which is tions, and upon information, that batween M. de Jouvenel and Field Magistrate, charged with violating created by the Central Party Com to be the additional representative of Commons, on the Automatio on the 26th March there were Marshal Lord Plumer. The Com the prison Regulations

of the whole situation at the mittee, which is on an equal stand. of the Home. Government on the hair shown to the solicitors engaged in bined operations were well in hand A fine of 36 with the alternafas with the cuter thres com Imperial Economic Committee Japan of the period of the case a series of deposits books and peace in Syria could be extive of saten days hard labour in mittees, but its powers limited onl

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pected in the near future--Reuter. default was imposed

which in the